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4 She unJlaijlcclgeih u9uucr Main News Sports Section PRICE 10 CENTS ull Associated Press COLU MRUS GEORGIA SUNDAY APRIL 23 1939 Complete A Senice yOL 9 No 45 COTTON EXPORT SUBSIDY COMPROMISE IS REACHED Check for Substantial Sum Received by Housing Authority Here TLER BPS RENCH PLANE EAS UK WASHINGTON 5 51 PAY IN DOLLARS TO THE ORDER so OBJiCl OW Which Own 5 HOUSING AUTHORITY ICC 835 that is moves which were bound to come to the attention of the MT BE ASKER nl (day in urging congrs admit price enmoeo 10 nis agreed on before PLANS DRW put another way that the said esc a ortner President Herbert Hoover joined st long notables to on two 1 tn the Um urdenjoing for rench went ahead The govern rushed in a address will be Elliott of qualified NATIONS ARE ASKED I GERMANY EARED DEENSE MEASURES ARE BEING PRESSED Questionnaire Sent Number of 'Countries Called Bold Move to Checkmate Plan Exercises Will Be Held in Columbus Wednesday in Honor of War Dead BANKHEAD ARBITER IN SECRET PARLEY decrees approved yesterday or dered an increase in small fight ing ships and auxiliary naval ves sels Adopts Resolution Saying Program Endangered Work Ordered Rushed on New Naval Base at Mers El Kebir in Algeria Mrengthening its cabinet as measure nf Avar preparedness Great Britain created a new department the Ministry of Supply and appointed Leslie Burgin to the post He will be responsible for maintain ing adequate supplies of de fense materials Rumania Cites Uneasy Con ditions Other Replies Ex pected To Be and as threatening to add to un employment and relief problems Their testimony clashes directly with that of Dorothy Thompson writer and lecturer Rabbi Steph en Wise of New York City and Dean Dudley Carroll of the! ty of North Carolina! He explained the apparent dis crepancy in totals resulted from multiple of in single systems with some schools operating for longer terms than others 'ipril 17 93 BERLl April (A P) Keichsfuehrer Hitler was engaged todav a bold strategic move in a diplomatic game to checkmate President Roosevelt in preparatmn for a momentous address next ri day before the rcichstag The man of surprises and secrets changed his customary tactics by making a series of public moves independent systems consolidated reports would complete a term three would eighi month term Move lion Law to Take Care of Children Supported Deadlock Menacing All arm Legislation Is Be lieved Averted Arnold Secs This Aid As Only Hope to Pay Local Teachers in ull I elected half and I was citizen (he son rank Agreemenl Provides 2 Cents Pound on Raw and Man ufactured Lint 4 Valuable Warcraft Lost in 3 Air Mishaps Sabotage Not Suspected Scei ct scrviie men Bawling in another car behind the president waved and shouted at the driver but he failed to halt Beer use Mr Roosevelt frax cling as a nrivak had made a visit tn his Jr at Charlottesville Ya) He lequestrd that the usual police motorcycle ecoi not bo used The chief executive started from Charlottes i lie at mid morn ipg taking a roundabout louts WASHINGTON April President Roosevelt narrowly ped an automobile collision today as he motoied without police escoit back from a Virginia trip The incident occurred near ort Myer Va at the outskirts of the capital Tlie car had stopped at an mtei section then staitcd nosing ahead when a nio lorist Shot across nt high speed within a few feet of the Roosevelt HOUSING AUTHORITT THK CITY C0LUM3U3 G30R GI A i again unless pledges to assure enactment of revenue measures to suppor New Ramsey said a poll of county and independent school systems disclosed a majority would com plete their terms despite curtailed state funds He expressed concern howeier that some school systems might i find it impossible to resume op eration next fall unless the legis lature reconvenes to provide a deficiency appropriation for the estimated $5200000 the state will owe its school teachers by June 30 Of 60 Ramsey said indicated 52 nine months complete an one has completed seven months and one closed short of seven months ifteen independent sys tems did not reply to the A questionnaire Of 159 county systems Ramsey reported 72 contemplating nine months terms 49 an eight months term 53 have completed seven months and 21 six months He added 41 systems closed some schools with shortened terms ifty eight county systems did not TRAIN KILLS CHILD ACWORTH Ga April 22 (AP) Two year old rances Irene Carder was killed today when struck by a train near here A jury returned a ver dict of accidental death DR MAYO UNDER KNIE ROCHESTER Minn April (AP) Dr William Mayo world renowned surgeon and co foundcr of the Mayo clinic here was re ported in condition and late today after undergoing a major abdom inal operation nt St hos pital this mortdno Young airbanks Wed to Divorcee Dean Carroll said that "as a southerner I feel the south has suffered because it has not been in the tide of He said "fine immigration from had avoided the south because of industrial and racial problems and this had a infusion of new blood would be one of the greatest blessings for the he added Miss Thompson modishly dressed and speaking earnestly said the refugee bill was "the first intelligently planned immigration measure in American As a former resident of Ger many and Austria she knew she said that the children would come "from the finest Be cause they would be 14 years or younger she said they would easily fit into citizenship and cus toms of this country Aside from humanitarian mo tives Mis? Thompson said See HOOVER Page I T70 HUNDRED SS7KN THOUSAND NC100 i inal plans for the Memorial Day exercises to be held Wed nesday April 26 at the Springer opera house were completed yes terday according to an announce ment by Mrs Walter Woodall president of the Ladies Memorial association Rev Albert Trulock pastor of St1 Luke Methodist church will make the principal for the occasion and he introduced by Robert local attorney Henry Pease will act as mas ter of ceremonies with Major McKee of the 29th Infantry serving as marshal of the day The following musical program will be rendered: Prelude 29th Infantry band Song Gentle Grieg: sung by St Paul choir Medley of Southern Airs 29th Infantry band Solo "Conquered George Davis 29th Infantry band At the cemetery the band will play "Abide with and ''ad Kindly Sandwiches and drinks will be served again this year to the ort Benning soldiers and students A number of Columbus merchants have made contribu tions to these refreshments provision of the present now scheduled to expire 1 with the act otherwise unchanged Proponents of the Pittman plan said they were confident it had much more support in the senate than has been openly indicated Proposals other titan these two alternatives are pending before the committee but most leaders think it obvious that none of them has a chance at this time will include the secretary of la bor Miss Perkins and one rep resentative from each state in the union a man or woman appoint ed by the governor of the state The program will open with a general session at 9:30 a Thursday at the White House Miss Perkins will preside and ad dresses will be made by President Roosevelt Mrs Roosevelt Rt Rev Msg Keegan and Mr olks This will be followed by a gen eral assembly nt 2 tn and sec tional meetings at 2:30 Mrs David will sjieak before the fourth section on The Child and Com munity Services for Health Edu cation and Social Protection rank Bane executive director council of state governments will preside The conference will close with a dinner at 7 o'clock nt the Shore ham hotel with Miss Perkins as presiding officer Reduction of the member ship of the Georgia senate to ten and that oi Ute house rcnrcsenlativcs to 75 urged in a letter by Maddox president of the People's Bank of Winder Gs who also contends for other drastic changes in the political set up of the state The communication ad dressed to the ijditor of (he Ledger Enquirer and to other morning newspapers of the state htsta on a secret ballot and a measure to pro hibit contributions to cam paign funds in Georgia It advocates the I service system and othCrf reforms Here is a text of tetter' iim' has arrived for the citizens of Georgia make some drastic change in our political set up whereby our state can he placed on sound business principles and HOLLYWOOD April (AP) Urbane young Douglas airbanks Jr film actor and magazine writer married Mrs Mary Lee roplmg Hartford comely divorcee of Virginia New York City and lorida The ceremony at the Mctrndut Episcopal church in ncarbv West wood "was attended by about 20 i datives and clo friends of the couple Douglas airbanks Sr the dashing scri cn star of old sen cd as best mam ALBANY Oa April (AP) The Georgia Conference on Social Work adopted a resolution at its Closing session here today as eit ing Georgia's public welfare pro gram "is critically by "the dismissal personnel in key positions experieiue of many years" the resolution stated has demon strated "that such qualified per sonnel is the only turn guarantee of economical and efficient ad ministration of public funds and we vigorously affirm the principle that the citizens of this state have a right to demand anti their department of public wel fare will be administered free of partisan interests of any sort po litical or otherwise so that it will serve tho inteiesls for which it was The resolution provided for ap pointment of a committee to con fer with Governor about the release a period of change and retrenchment (of) profes sionally qualified and personnel and to urge appoint ment of persons "whose sole con cern will be to give unbiased con sideration and study to effecting an administrative by which citizens needs "can best be nu red Athcarn of Atlanta was reelected president of the group Other officers elected were Capt rank Spencer first ico president Mrs Elliott of Augusta second vice president Miss Rhoda Kaufman of Atlanta treasurer and Mrs Evelyn Wil son Columbus: Mrs Cecil Har vey Macon and A A Moron At lanta eecuiia board membws primarily at moving the new crop mto world channels the compromise plan would leave unsolved tnc ques tion of what to do with the huge quantities of cotton piled up un der government loans Senator Byrne (D SC) ha suggested trading part of it to Great Britain and other nations for tin rubber and other product this country lacks Under his plan the trades would be accompanied by cry citizen and cerpmabon given a deal a far as it is humanly po'Sible Press enjoyed by we Americans has the gieatcst moulding influcme exist ence and we si appealing to the daily picss in Georgia with the that they will start a movement that will receive the cooperation of every newspaper in the stale and its citizens to place our state in a sound financial po sition and ytt sponsor cvcry worthy cause bonld at once start a mmcment to nut through the Atljimlian ballot affecting office in state pro hibit contribution do cam uon or me genera paisns so that smart men of mode rite means that cannot be Influenced can be to public office When a a dozen 'mg corporal ions GEA Secretary Says 16 Sen ators and 57 Representa tives avor Call re in 'd oes not see how anyone could feel se cure Europe at the present time) Officials in Poland which like Rumania has received a ptedge of aid from Britain and rance in event an attack on her inde pendence insisted they had not been consulted The Balkan states generally described as silent but in their caoitals their replies werejUniver expected to conciliator? notes Chapel Hill WASHINGTON April (AP) Prenident Roosevelt and southern I senators patched up their quarrel lover a cotton exports subsidy to Jday by agreeing on a bounty of I about 2 cents a pound on both raw cotton and manufactured cotton I goods sold abroad Senator Bankhead (D AIa)who served as peacemaker in the dead farm com secret cotton Req 2 Contract TH $8 Dft Zf a 2 Above Is photograph nf a check for two hundred and seven thousand dollars jut received frm lie federal government hr the Housing Authority of Columbus to be used for the purchase of the she for Booker Whftiton Apartments across from the Stadium and Exposition grounds for architectural fees and other expense in the development costs Jwo hunched and eishti four ruw tjpc house wilt be built on these grounds The Authority will start to acquiring title to the property w'lhn time It was announced Saturday hr Theo McGee chairman of the hoard receipt of the biff cheek ifty per cent of the options on the site for the George oster Apartments between Hamilton and Talbotton asenuea have been secured to date he said The above i heck is the second received the first having been for thirty thousand dollars and devoted to deielnpment costs Brown Nicholson the project director spent Saturday in Augusta in attendance upon a state meeting of hous ing authority oflelaU Above photo by I inwden German Public in Ignorance While uncovering his hand toforeign nations by his question naire Hitler however did not take the German public into his Not a word was printed in the German press or broadcast about the activity of German diplomacy abroad Even government spokes men professed to know about it only through reading foreign dis patches inquiring foreign correspondents were told Germany was concerned merely about knowing who start ed the whole talk about nationsbeing endangered German ambassadors and min isters therefore were instructed according 'to a man who knows well the mind of oreign Minister 'Joachim von Ribbentrop to find out whether any of the 31 nations listed by Roosevelt might have' ifm nished the president with acasts for his action fyThij informant atd he pre See HITLER Page I Roosevelt Auto Almost Hit By Another In Virginia 1 Mrs rank David member of the Georgia board of education Las been appointed as representative to the White House Conference on Children in a Democracy The conference will be April 26 at the White House with President ranklin Roose velt as honorary chairman and speaker and rances Perkins secre tary 01 iaDOr as cnairman Sirs David who received her appointment from Governor Rivers leaves today for Washing ton to become a member of the conference that will include one jepresentative from each state in the union Mrs David will speak at the sectional meeting planned for the afternoon session The conference called by Pres ident Roosevelt will have the president as honorary chairmanMrs ranklin Roosevelt ashonorary vice chairman rances jerkins secretary of labor as jrhairman and Katharine Lcn yoot chief Bureau Department of Labor as cxecu eatured speakers will include President Roosevelt Mrs Roose velt the Rt Rev Mg Robert Keegan of New Yoik and Home olks secretary New York State Charities Aid Assn iation Ths rnemtx' rt of xnfei wnce nanv ihe replies were said pc mt io thee guarantees Rumania however was ported London to have formed Germany that she Mrs David Will Attend White House Conference dispute that threatened to 'lock senate action on all legislation announced the promise agreement after a conference of the senate bloc He said the subsidy would be used in an endeavor to sell first this year's cotton crop and cotton outside the loan stocks President Roosevelt had sug? gested a subsidy to reduce the more than 3 1000000 bales staple piled up under government loans but southern senators con tended this might lower the mar ket for this year's crop i Tract ical Operation ievteed p'cgram is a prac tical ogcraiton of the i otton ex rn subsidy announced by the president" Bankhead 'Our present plan ill new errp cotton in free chant cl of Bankhead said feel 1 ccr LSH that the dcmeatic price lor I this sca on will be stabilized at around 9 cents a I This price level ne added would financing the school program 'cause growers to market their senator and 20 represents ne' crop instead of putting up lives were lsted as able a collateial for government lor of about 8 cents a pound UI uuuvau Bejn cHiTEX TIUU3T' inCHIUri HMUC X1M reply to the poll i Under Georgia law the legisla ture may convene itself emer gencies by vote of three fifths the members of each branch or at least i 123 representatives and 32 sena tors The governor may call a ses sion at any time Governor Rivers recently indicated he would not call the legislators to Atlanta he received enough agreement to hold the stocks as war reserves ume's xne worm price climbed to a figure to i the trace Britain Seeks Purchase Administration circles heard with interest a report published in the London Sunday dispatch that Great Britain had opened negotiations for purchase of the bulk of the surplus It was said at the state department that noth ing was known of this there Of ficials said it was possible how ever that Ambassador Kennedy had been approached at London Bankhead said the compromise export plan would be attached to the annual agricultural appropria tions bill now pending before senate committee so that funds would be available to carry it out The program would prohibi use or release of any of the cotton now stored under loans until after January 1 Bankhead said this would growers ample time to move the present Export bounties on cotton not under loan could he paid after July 1 start of the new fiscal year for which the agricultural appropriations are available While Bankhead said the sub would be about 2 cents a pound he said arrangements would be made so that it could be paid either in cash or cotton The of agriculture he said could buy market if he wished to make payments in See DIXIE Page 4 $207 00000 Convinced by Zach Arnold late! auditor that the Icgislatuie did not provide sufficient funds to i meet the needs of Ute schools Arnold vcc prestdrnt of Use! Columbus board o' school trus tees said List night our school teachers are paidur note 1 recourse at present is an artoM to the city commission for Mr Arnold issued his statement upon receipt of a lengthy letter from th auditor in which hi plained in detailed form the con I dilion of the finances The i letter was in reply to one Mr I Arnold had written the governor asking for a report on the financial status and what funds if any were available for meeting the needs vfter studying the letter Mr Arnold said: "Declarations to the effect that the state has sufficient funds on hand with which to pay the teach ers are in my opinion unsup ported by the facts I am con vinced the plain truth is that suf ficient revenues were not provid ed by the legislature to meet the appropriations and as an unfor tunate consequence the state can not pay in full the amount due the teachers The governor cannot get the money out of thin air am making we apove state ment after an unbiased study of the entire matter 1 might add that I am in no way related to Mr Zach Arnold the state After answering the queries the auditor pointed to increased ap propriations over 1935 when the last appropriation bill was in ef fect These increases included $5072400 more appropriated to schools $1134500 more to wel fare and $480000 increase to health appropriation can realize what we are up he wrote the anticipated general fund income is $12500000 (with $21000000 to tal appropriations annually voted) or only $212781607 in excess of the amount required to pay the appropriations on the basis of 1935 in The total annual appropriation in 1935 for the general fund from which schools welfare and health are financed was $1037218333 it can be expected that the $1114110775 increases in ap propriations can be paid with in creased revenue of only $2217 81667 is beyond the auditor added Responding to a question on tax allocation to schools he said the one cent of the gasoline tax and the kerosene tax allocated to ed ucation brought payments up to April 15 to $2716191 An addi tional $855000 from this source is anticipated by June 30 end of the fiscal year The free textbook fund received from allocated beer and wine taxes $841947 35 as of April 15 leaving anticipated collection of $350000 to June 30 Besides appropriations and al located tax yields schools also ob tain funds from the federal gov ernment and private donations Arnold said figures on these items would be available after the year end audit Summarizing general fund re ceipts and anticipations for the Columbus trustee Arnold said the general fund income of $12500000 we will have suffi cient funds to pay 56 per cent of the $2044679108 reducible gen eral fund Under the budget reduction clause the only items payable 100 per cent even though revenue falls short of the total appropriations Kr HELT Tag 4 ATLANTA April Ralph Rrrscy executive sr rciaiy of the Georgia Education association announced today a poll of leiiislatois show cd 16 senators and 57 representa tveu fa yzrable to an extra scs assembly on the school program nd 20 representa able 30 senators The committee did not meet to day Legislative leaders expressed the opinion that the discussion of the neutrality problem already nad narrowed the possible come to a choice between propositions '1 hese aitcrndives they were: The adoption of amonrimen's under which Amer ican mnkcts would be wide open to all belligeicnt nations with the rest) ictioru that they pay cash and that their purchases not be transported in American ships A continuation of the cash and carry law Banker Would Cut Size Of Legislature And Make Other Drastic Changes 20000 refugee children from Ger many to homes in this country A joint congressional commit tee conuedesi 3 the legation heard by telegram from the only living former president that he the proposal harm and only good can come to a nation by such humane Hoover said in the mes sage read by Clarence Pickett of Philadelphia one of the spon sors of the legislation Shortly afterward spokesmen for patriotic organizations opened an attack noon the refugee bill as a violation of immigration standards I Spain and following a series of WASHINGTON April Working quietly some influ ential republicans in the senate have begun a movement for a "compromise" of the current neutrality controversy which would leave the present law unchanged Disclosing this today one of the group said their had been aptly expressed in the statement this week by Senator Borah (JR Idaho) ranking member of the foreign relations committee that the temper of the public made the time inappropriate for framing permanent neutrality legislation or put another way that the present act should not be changed al this time There were indications mean flir I 1 1 tiai administration was III I JI I I Al ready to press for a show down Ifl II 1 I I III on lhe question or changing the Ifl flew itiiv LzgxAt man a ivtiiiciii 1 xy of the senate foreign relations Drx ex I fl nN fl committee said that Hugh nil I Johnson newspaper columnist ard former NRA administrator JJ (J would testify Monday and that the committee would end hear ings soon afterward and begin Social Work Conference consideration of proposed changes home through the Shenandoah Valley He nmlorcd to Charlottes ville yesterday He stopped for two hours today near New Market Va where he had a turkcv dinner with Major Edward Brown owner of Endless Caverns and Mrs Brown in their rambling frame home near the mouth of the Caverns Several friends joined tnr party at New Mai Ret and made the trip back to Washington Near New Market the president slopped a few minutes while IS4 car old Elizabeth Henderson Mrs Roosevelt niece who lives al the White House left the party and boarded a plane for flight to Washington JL Uita rhnnre (in the cases where states al ready have guarantees from Ger 10 A I April 22 (AP) rame which Js pushing its de fense preparatwrs at top speed suffered a heavy blow today with an overnight series of air force crashes involving the deaths of 20 fliers and the loss of four war planes The air ministry began a far flung investigation of the crashes Air Minister Guy Ja Cbambre assigned two of his highest as sistants Lieut Col Sylvester Ta vern and light Commander Ga briel David to conduct inquiries at Tours and Beauvais where two of the occurred An air officer in rench Morocco was i ordered to investigate a third crash near Al Aioun La Chambre has been struggling jfor months to raise tuc's plane strength to a level someuherc near that of Germany and Italy All four planes lost ere rench made A large number of warplanes purchased ted States still ate 1 tests to adapt them to Amend Immigra I Preliminary reports indicated sabotage was involved in the accidents 1 Thi rf ntr WASHINGTON April 22 (AP)'lat yesterday with the fall of a arman "221" four motored bomb er in rench Morocco killing six At Beauvais a Potez twin motored ship disappeared during the night only 9 short distance from the airport A milkman found the wreckage today the crew of five dead The third rh near Tour 00 rmrrod hen" two Marcel twin motoi ed bomber fly ing at the head and tail of a squad ron of four collidtd our meh in the first plane and five in the second were kiued Meanwhile rance with defense steps ment ordered work new naval base at Mers el Kcbir on the Algerian coast opposite The Weather GORCJt tHG it At AH laif rwr Hisb public in foreign countries He asked two pointed questions oi a number of nations inciuceo in the list of 31 named by Presi dent Roosevelt in his appeal to Hitler and Premier Mussolini for pledges of non aSSression Hitler asked smaller nations whether they felt them selves menaced by Germany and whether they had advance know ledge of the Roosevelt move As seen by his followers the'ehrer thus posed painstaking a and questioning on icn a considered opinion could oased against President Roose elfs action which these follow ers considered impulsive secret inis inception and lacking in psy cal understanding of the Eurn'ean situation Answers Negative (Reports fr outside Germany i red that carefully worded nga're answers to ths question tare were sent or or i rmsicn Berlin ifrom the prgue Berne Brussels Helsing ias Stocknolm and otner of Germany's smaller Republicans Are Seeking Neutrality Compromise I jp fI I A "I BIS fl 1 a 1 1 rft I 1 1 1 1 1 sr G7fLtaN nin onncriir lux uvnur hnuinr1 i i hi 1 1 HllUliu UIIIIWIILW ll LU A VllIllV onncnin tiaifmtv rafm fits Imt ho Im Imi 9 PfiTPU ID cc 1 1 1 1 i 1 aa uu iii I 1 iu 1 I Illi ILL I tdulr Illi II Lil 1 TH 'ff Wk a CITY HOOVER JOINS jfiullr Unb Iw nrr mn I MEMORIAL.